[mendez]

Great explanation. Probably wasn't a great idea to trust a company that started as a trading card exchange (Magic The Gathering Online eXchange - Mt. Gox) with such large amounts of money.

[dustcoin]

mtgox.com was just a domain name the original owner had lying around after _possibly_ using it to host a card exchange at some point in time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mt.Gox#Possible_citogenes...